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author: mathpunk
Am now pretty convinced that my virtual machines' internet randomly going out is a problem with virtualbox itself. It happens randomly to every OS I've played with, and restarting the virtual machine does nothing, whereas restarting my whole computer often fixes it. Wild
We did it! I currently have 69 notifications on Station. I am very mature
Been looking after the neighbor's dog while she went on a trip. She's coming back tomorrow. I've learned that the amount of time I can spend caring for an animal before I become very emotionally attached to them is about 5 days. I'm really gonna miss this dog!
Anyone have a preferred gemini/gopher client for android? I'm checking out Deedum right now and it works pretty well, though I'm not totally sure how to create/import identities. As far as I can tell it doesn't do gopher, and all the gopher browsers I've found for android aren't being maintained. I'm excited about being able to check Chilly Weather on my phone - my phone's built-in weather widget takes ages to update, and most web based weather sites are bloated to hell. Doing away with that was one of my first goals when I discovered gemini, actually!
The more time I spend surfing gemini the more it stands out to me how terrible modern web design has become. My classes have some online content that only ever renders on half the screen, regardless of screen size, because EVERYTHING is stuck into an iframe. I can't figure out what it is they're trying to accomplish by doing that. There's so much styling and javascript that it takes as long to load a single page as it would to load a PDF containing the entire course content. It's wild.
Been thinking that part of why I struggle to find things on the web is that I've trained myself to talk to search engines like I'm asking a person a question instead of looking for specific keywords. Problem is that search engines have been optimized for people doing that, so putting in the effort to do it the "right way" doesn't yield any better results anymore, except in some specific cases. Search operators don't even seem to work anymore.
Picked up an external HDD yesterday to backup my data while I mess around with my machines, so I'm officially ready to make the switch to using Linux full time!
My personal trainer has me doing a stretching routine before I sit down at the computer, to help with my neck and shoulder issues (which I have because I spend too much time sitting at the computer). Makes me feel like some kind of action movie hacker, doing warmups before coding.
Its currently 1am. I had some caffeine and powered through a chapter and a half of coursework, which is a whole chapter more than I intended to do. I'll be paying the price tomorrow, but that's less to do for future me : )
Have so far managed to convince two of my loved ones to start using pgp encryption. I'm on a roll!
Worked very hard to get caught up on my classes and then immediately started slacking off again. Gonna be a busy weekend!
Finally set up pgp email encryption today.
After two days of almost nonstop studying, I am caught up on all my classes again. Hopefully I can keep it that way
I enjoy this time of year. The sun doesn't set too early or too late, so I get to go for walks right before sunset. The way the sunlight paints the trees pink is quite pretty.
Saw the Mario movie today. It was better than I expected it to be. I particularly enjoyed the soundtrack and music choices. Jack Black did a really good job as Bowser, it sounds like he really enjoyed the role. All in all it was quite a fun little film.
Hello World! I've only recently discovered gemini, but I've been enjoying all the cool things there are to find, like this place, so I decided to sign up! I'm hoping to host my own capsule someday.